Why does the Singularity appeal only to men?
January 20th, 2007 | Published in Sci-tech
I’m a big believer in the singularity, but I don’t have illusions. I don’t have any idea when it will happen and it’s just as likely we’ll kill ourselves off before it happens.
I also believe the singularity is an abstract concept. it’s not like one day, 125 years from now, a switch will go off and we’ll all suddenly be non-corporeal individuals. It may be like the ATM machine. Slow enough so that you don’t notice you’re using a robot to access your bank. It’s just normal.
But the change will compress in time, going from “bank tellers” to “robots” will take weeks or days instead of decades.
The singularity is a LOT of cognitive dissidence, I find it’s too much for a lot of people. I find my wife’s view of it is wildly different from mine, and it seems she’s like a lot of women.
What’s you’re reaction from this quote from the link above, speaking about a current sigularity:
the singularity of tools. Imagine a Homo habilis playing with his stone axe, and his buddy says to him, “Grok! These stone axes are not going to change for millions of years, because we’re on the flat part of an exponential curve. But this has an abstract design within it, which means it contains information that can be passed down through the generations. And in another 3 million years, we’re going to have a feedback loop of information, and pretty soon our tools are going to cover the world; they’re going to be on our bodies; and we’re going to go from a few thousand of us to a few billion of us. Everything we touch will be a tool. Our tool designs are going to inhabit matter and build our dreams around us. Everything we look at is going to be a manifestation, an embodiment of an idea.
